Senior DTC Growth Manager – Shopify & Paid
Somewhere
🇿🇦 Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants
This fully remote full time position at Somewhere is open to applicants from South Africa. The estimated monthly salary is R46,250 – R55,500 ZAR. This role is suited for mid-level professionals. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.
Job Description
Senior DTC Growth Manager – Shopify & Paid Media
About the Company
Our client is a skincare brand focused on selling high-quality, results-driven products directly to consumers. The company previously reached approximately $10M in annual revenue through Amazon, but after losing that channel, the business is now rebuilding and scaling through Shopify.
The company’s main priority is to turn its Retinol Cream into the brand’s hero product and use it as the foundation to scale Shopify revenue profitably. This is a high-impact role for someone who can take ownership of growth, move quickly, and directly influence revenue.
About the Role
We are looking for a hands-on Senior DTC Growth Manager to own and scale the company’s direct-to-consumer growth strategy through Shopify.
This is not a strategy-only role. The right candidate must be comfortable personally managing paid media campaigns, leading creative testing, analyzing profitability, improving conversion rates, and coordinating with external agencies to drive measurable growth.
The main objective of this role is to help the company rebuild toward its previous revenue level by making Shopify the primary growth channel. The ideal candidate has successfully scaled paid media in a highly competitive DTC niche and understands how acquisition, creative, landing pages, profitability, and retention work together.
This role is best suited for someone who has been directly accountable for results, not someone who has only worked in a large agency environment where performance was distributed across a large team.
Key Responsibilities
Paid Media Management
* Personally manage Meta Ads and Google Ads campaigns.
* Ideally manage or support TikTok Ads campaigns.
* Own campaign setup, testing, optimization, budget allocation, and performance analysis.
* Manage significant monthly paid media budgets, ideally $100K+/month.
* Candidates with direct experience managing $50K–$100K/month may be considered if they show strong performance ownership.
* Monitor CAC, ROAS, contribution margin, profitability, AOV, LTV, and payback period.
* Make data-driven decisions to scale campaigns profitably.
Shopify Growth & Profitability
* Own Shopify revenue growth and profitability.
* Understand Shopify economics deeply, including margins, conversion rate, upsells, AOV, CAC, and retention.
* Identify growth opportunities across the full funnel.
* Work with leadership to define priorities, targets, and growth levers.
* Help turn the Retinol Cream into the company’s hero product.
Creative Testing & UGC Strategy
* Own the creative testing process across paid social channels.
* Develop hypotheses for new angles, hooks, offers, and messaging.
* Lead UGC strategy and coordinate creator briefs.
* Work with creator platforms such as Influee or similar tools.
* Analyze creative performance and use insights to guide new tests.
* Build a repeatable creative testing system that can support profitable scaling.
Landing Pages & CRO
* Direct landing page improvements and conversion rate optimization efforts.
* Identify friction points in the customer journey.
* Recommend improvements to product pages, landing pages, funnels, offers, and checkout experience.
* Work with the agency or technical team to execute CRO changes.
* Ensure landing pages align with paid media angles and customer intent.
Retention, Email & SMS Strategy
* Provide strategic direction to the email and SMS agency.
* Support retention, cross-selling, upselling, and repeat purchase strategies.
* Ensure retention campaigns align with the customer journey and product positioning.
* Analyze email/SMS performance and identify opportunities to improve LTV and customer engagement.
Full-Funnel Ownership
* Be accountable for the full DTC funnel, from creative and acquisition through conversion and retention.
* Connect paid media, creative, Shopify performance, CRO, and retention into one cohesive growth strategy.
* Track results, report performance, and communicate priorities clearly.
* Build growth systems that can scale beyond one-off campaign wins.
Requirements
* 3+ years of hands-on DTC growth, performance marketing, or paid media experience.
* Proven experience personally managing Meta Ads and Google Ads.
* TikTok Ads experience is a strong plus.
* Experience directly managing paid media budgets of at least $50K–$100K/month; $100K+/month strongly preferred.
* Strong Shopify experience and deep understanding of Shopify profitability.
* Experience scaling a DTC brand profitably.
* Experience owning creative testing, UGC strategy, and creator briefs.
* Experience working with creator or UGC platforms such as Influee or similar tools.
* Strong understanding of landing pages, CRO, funnels, offers, and conversion optimization.
* Experience giving strategic direction to email and SMS marketing teams or agencies.
* Strong full-funnel growth mindset, covering acquisition, conversion, and retention.
* Excellent written and spoken E
Tips for South African Applicants
Timezone Advantage
South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.
Salary in Context
At R46,250/month, this role is competitive with the average South African remote salary. The USD equivalent ($2,500/mo) benefits from the favourable exchange rate.
Application Tips
Tailor your CV to international standards — use a clean format, highlight remote work experience, and include your English proficiency. Many SA applicants succeed by emphasising their strong work ethic and cultural adaptability.
Load Shedding Preparedness
If you're applying for a remote role, having a backup power solution (UPS, inverter, or generator) and mobile data as a backup internet connection shows employers you're prepared for South Africa's infrastructure challenges.
About Somewhere
Somewhere is a company in the Recruitment & Staffing industry that hires remote workers from South Africa. They currently have 748 open positions on Hirezar. View all Somewhere jobs →